[sword-devel] Bishop for Android and iOS / JavaScript bindings
Troy A. Griffitts
scribe at crosswire.org
Sun Mar 4 15:38:07 MST 2018
Dear Michael,
Could I get you to give me even more information than your already detailed report? I just installed the spavbl2018eb and it worked fine for me. The 3 Bibles I have chosen to make active, in order are ESV2011, spavbl2018eb, and WLC. When I choose a NT verse, I see the ESV and spa just fine, and when I choose an OT verse, I see the ESV and WLC.
If you plug your device into your computer via USB and run:
adb logcat
... I dump all kinds of debug to the console there. If you can get output, does anything look fishy?
On March 4, 2018 2:45:05 PM MST, Michael Johnson <Michael at eBible.org> wrote:
>Thanks, Troy!
>
>I downloaded Bishop on an Android phone (Moto E with Android 7.1.1),
>and it worked until I tried downloading spavbl2018eb from the
>eBible.org repository. Opening that Bible resulted in the spinning
>wheel of death. I then tried engfbv2018eb, with the same result. Either
>time, I could go back to an already-downloaded translation (that was
>there with And Bible), and that worked. Downloading a new Bible from
>Crosswire Main worked. Downloading a full Bible from eBible.org
>(engRV1895eb) worked. When I tried to
>install a partial NT (engGLW1996eb), that installed, but also would not
>open (spinning wheel of death).
>
>Spin.
>Spin.
>Spin.
>Something is hanging up or in an infinite loop...
>
>On 03/03/2018 02:24 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>>
>> Bishop 1.0.2 pushed out-- support for older devices.
>>
>> Found some JavaScript and CSS constructs I was using which didn't
>work well (at all) on older Android phones. I've updated things and
>tested on Android 5.1 and iPhone 5s and seems to now work reasonably
>well. Please let me know if you have a device which is having trouble
>or if you are successfully running on an Android release older than
>5.1. I'd like to know how old we can go back and still support.
>>
>> Thanks everyone for your feedback and time spent having a go at this,
>>
>> Troy
>>
>>
>> On 03/03/2018 02:53 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the feedback Michael,
>>>
>>> I have added a new menu choice:
>>>
>>> [ Settings ]
>>>
>>> - Font Size +
>>>
>>> It seems to work well on both iOS and Android. Please let me know
>if it makes the app more usable for you. The update should now be
>available for your phone.
>>>
>>> Thank you again for taking the time to provide valuable feedback.
>>>
>>> Troy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/03/2018 04:05 AM, Michael H wrote:
>>>> I already had AndBible installed.
>>>>
>>>> Bishop installed and recognized all the modules (at least 20+
>bibles, i haven't confirmed "ALL") that AndBible has present. I haven't
>attempted any more module installs after installing Bishop, either from
>AndBible or Bishop.
>>>>
>>>> The text is small on my Samsung Galaxy On5. Not horribly unreadably
>small, but small for me to use for any length of time. I don't see
>settings to adjust that, so I haven't spent much time on it. I can and
>will test more if you have something specific.. But this isn't ready
>for my eyes yet. Very promising tho. :-) Based on the images in the
>store screen, I would be using it more if the text had size
>adjustment.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 11:05 PM, Troy A. Griffitts
><scribe at crosswire.org <mailto:scribe at crosswire.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've had 2 instances of problems running the app. One was a
>report from a user here, and another was trying to install the app on
>my TV. In both cases, the app showed a blank gray screen after install
>and and startup.
>>>>
>>>> I have had debug versions on all my devices here at some point,
>so I'm not a very good clean test case. Has anyone had any luck
>installing and getting the basic set of modules running? Or any
>problems? Thanks for any feedback.
>>>>
>>>>
>https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.crosswire.bishop
><https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.crosswire.bishop>
>>>>
>>>> Troy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 03/02/2018 01:31 PM, David Haslam wrote:
>>>>> *_Suggestion:_*
>>>>> Please edit https://wiki.crosswire.org/Frontends:Bishop
><https://wiki.crosswire.org/Frontends:Bishop>
>>>>> and add these details.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> David
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>>>>> On 1 March 2018 2:26 AM, Troy A. Griffitts
><scribe at crosswire.org> <mailto:scribe at crosswire.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear team,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You all know we've been working on Cordova bindings for SWORD
>for quite some time now. We now have a simple reader written in
>JavaScript which will run unchanged on both Android and iOS.Bishop
>includes an InstallMgr to auto-discover remote installation sources and
>let a user install SWORD content.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've kept the development code name "Bishop", my favorite
>android (from Aliens) and almost appropriate for a Bible app :) I've
>also tacked on our boring moniker from our Windows app, "Bishop: The
>SWORD Project for Android". Long name but should get more search hits.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Basically, Bishop's UI has 2 basic modes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *Reader*: which simply shows 1 chapter of up to 3 Bibles
>in parallel.
>>>>>> *Verse* *Study*: When in reader mode, as the user
>scrolls, one verse will always be active, when "Verse Study" is chosen
>from the menu, the user can then drill down into that active verse.
>Verse Study has 4 tools:*
>>>>>> *
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *Word* *Study*: shows the verse broken down word by
>word, showing the original Greek or Hebrew behind each word, along with
>a simple definition.*
>>>>>> Commentary*: shows all installed commentary for that
>verse.
>>>>>> *Witness* *Study*: shows all available ancient New
>Testament manuscript witnesses which attest to the current verse.
>>>>>> *Variant* *Study*: shows all variant between the
>manuscript witnesses for the current verse.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Other features include very basic bookmarks and search. The
>Android release has an initial attempt at BibleSync support to send
>your current verse out to all your friends running Bishop on the same
>network (thanks Karl!).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The initial goal of Bishop was to be the thinnest client on
>top of the bindings, as an example and thus uses no 3rd party
>libraries, save jQuery. Now that the initial release is completed and
>can serve as an example, we're free to improve the mobile user
>interface if anyone feels called to join the team and give it a shot.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Installation locations follow. It's best to let Bishop
>install its basic set of SWORD modules upon first run, so it has a
>minimal set of tools it can use to operate. It will prompt you to do
>this when you first launch the application and it finds no modules
>installed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Android users can install the app from:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.crosswire.bishop
><https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.crosswire.bishop>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> iPhone users will need to send me their UDID for testing
>while we try to get through the Apple Store approval process. I
>haven't even tried yet as I don't have much hope that it is "pretty"
>enough for them, but the download link for the iPhone binary is here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://crosswire.org/bishop/manifest.plist
><https://crosswire.org/bishop/manifest.plist>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://crosswire.org/bishop.ipa
><https://crosswire.org/bishop.ipa>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The code can be had from:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://git.crosswire.org/main/bishop
><http://git.crosswire.org/main/bishop>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please let us know what you think if you are a user, and
>offer your suggestions from a usability perspective.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you are a developer, please offer comments and suggest
>features you have a desire and are willing to add.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please give us a great rating so we show up in a search in
>the Play Store and let others know. I think we have some unique
>feature that other app don't offer and I've been using Bishop as my
>morning reader for a while now. The default fullscreen text without
>clutter is pleasant.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Christ's best for you!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Troy
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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